<figure id="attachment_420481" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1791px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-420481"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="1e111c60"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/04/41dd5088c3ce0f69927e6e9cff16c3b5.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-420481" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryoko Hirosue was arrested for allegedly assaulting a nurse at a hospital after a highway accident.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2><b>After an accident in which she ran into a large trailer</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ryoko Hirosue (44) was arrested for assaulting a nurse at a hospital in Shizuoka Prefecture&#8217;s Shimada City. Five hours before the incident, she had been involved in an accident on the Shin-Tomei Expressway, crashing into a large trailer, which led to her being urgently transported to the hospital.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her personal office, &#8216;R.H,&#8217; which she serves as the president, released a statement on their website on April 8:</span></p>
<p><b>&#8220;On April 8, in Shizuoka Prefecture, the driver of the vehicle, who was Ryoko Hirosue herself, caused a traffic accident. As a result of falling into a temporary panic state at the hospital where she was transported, she accidentally injured a medical professional. We sincerely apologize for the trouble and concern caused to the affected individual and everyone involved.&#8221;</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The statement also mentioned that she would be suspending her entertainment activities.</span></p>
<p><b>&#8220;Early on the 8th, the first report of Hirosue&#8217;s arrest was brought in. She was arrested on the spot for kicking and scratching a nurse. However, as she did not have identification to confirm her identity, it was initially reported as &#8216;a self-identified&#8217; case. Eventually, based on the car&#8217;s number plate, it was confirmed that it was indeed Hirosue, and the &#8216;self-identified&#8217; label was removed from the report,&#8221;</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> said a TV station official.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June 2023, Hirosue was involved in a double adultery scandal with popular chef Shusaku Toba (46), and in July of the same year, she announced her divorce from candle artist Jun Toba (51), becoming a single mother of three children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amid her scandal and subsequent hiatus from entertainment, she left the agency she had been with for 26 years in February 2024, became independent, and set up her personal office to resume her activities. On March 28, she made her return to a major television network after two years, appearing on the Fuji TV variety show &#8220;The Common 10!&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hirosue made her entertainment debut in 1995 as a pure idol at the age of 14. After graduating from junior high school, she moved to Tokyo to begin her full-scale entertainment career. Her commercial for DoCoMo&#8217;s pagers became a sensation, making her a star. Despite her pure image, she repeatedly caused a stir in the media with various romance reports, as recounted by a women&#8217;s magazine reporter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The magazine had witnessed Hirosue&#8217;s dating scenes numerous times, with the first being in September 1998 when she was at the height of her idol career. At that time, Hirosue, aged 18, was dating 21-year-old actor Mitsuu (47), and it was a shocking moment for her fans. The relationship was very public, with Hirosue initiating the contact and even holding hands.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not long after, the magazine witnessed Hirosue on a date with a new partner, 22-year-old actor Yusuke Iseya (48). The three of them, including Hirosue&#8217;s mother, were seen strolling together in Yokohama&#8217;s Isezaki-cho. Later, Hirosue was seen riding behind Iseya on his motorcycle in an intimate position. Those close to Hirosue reflected on this period, saying that even though her love life was widely discussed, her popularity did not wane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the rumors of many relationships, her career continued successfully, with notable performances in films like </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secret</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Railroad Man</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. However, in July 2001, the magazine witnessed a strange incident during a drama shoot, marking the beginning of a new chapter in her career.</span></p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead="An &quot;unexpected place&quot; where she went from the center of Tokyo &quot;without paying&quot; for the ride."></div>
<figure id="attachment_318508" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318508"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b4720d19"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/2c16dfeba4d35a096697fcba764ace36.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318508" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After arriving in Minamiboso City, Chiba Prefecture, after a two-and-a-half-hour taxi ride, Hirosue suddenly sat down on the ground and started taping her ankle. She rolled up her pants and made this expression (July 2001).</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2><b>Trouble in the midst of a full-fledged entertainment career</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On that day, after returning home early in the morning from a club, Hirosue took a taxi and traveled for two and a half hours, covering a distance of 150 km to Shirahama, Chiba. However, she didn’t have her wallet, so she borrowed money from an elderly couple at a diner. She then excitedly interacted with fans, singing loudly and sitting on the ground. Eventually, she got into a male fan&#8217;s car and was driven back to Tokyo. This unexpected behavior, uncharacteristic of an idol, shocked the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About a year after these repeated incidents, the magazine saw Hirosue again in April 2002, during a date with model Takahiro Okazawa. There, Hirosue and Okazawa were seen happily leaning against each other, sharing broad smiles. For her, having entered the entertainment industry—a long-held dream—and quickly becoming famous at a young age, it seemed that love provided a sense of emotional stability.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Hirosue divorced Okazawa, the father of her first son, in 2008. Two years later, in 2010, she remarried to Jun Candle, whom she had dated for seven months at the time (36 years old).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the magazine spotted her again in February 2018, she was at a modest Shanghai restaurant, chatting with what seemed to be her &#8216;mom friends,&#8217; focusing on topics related to her children. Perhaps talking with these close friends helped her relieve the stress of raising children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, after getting married, as Candle Jun mentioned in a press conference, Hirosue was seen devotedly taking care of her children. In June 2015, she was seen energetically riding a mama bike in a residential area of Tokyo, despite being pregnant with her third child. She was taking her 4-year-old second son to and from school, demonstrating her dedication.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, it seems her &#8216;romantic nature&#8217; could not be contained even within a happy marriage. She had an affair with Toba, which led to her divorce from Candle Jun, and it caused disruptions in her entertainment career.</span></p>
<p><b>“After the affair reports, she managed to make a comeback, appearing on major TV stations, and her career seemed to be fully back on track. The timing of the recent incident is a real blow. She has long been famous for causing trouble, so her die-hard fans didn’t leave after the affair and romance reports. In fact, the concert held last year, after 25 years, sold out immediately. However, this assault incident is a different kind of trouble. Even her fans might be completely put off by it”</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(sports newspaper reporter).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What will be the future of the troublesome&#8217; actress?</span></p>
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<h2>Idol days when she was proudly in love</h2>
<h3>MITSUU<br>
October 16, 1998 issue (age 18)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_318510" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318510"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="01db5d35"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/50142e96cf198f880c652f7d25eefea1.jpg" alt=""></a>Since neither Mitsuu nor Hirosue owned a car, their dates mostly involved getting around on foot. That day as well, without any particular disguise, they met up on the platform of Shibuya Station on the Yamanote Line.<figcaption id="caption-attachment-318510" class="wp-caption-text"></figcaption></figure>
<h3><b>Yusuke Iseya<br>
</b><b>March 19, 1999 issue (age 18)</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_318511" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318511"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a79bf231"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/ccbbdb95c6f01415993828d356acb155.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318511" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This date photo was taken when Hirosue was about to start college. At the time, Iseya was enrolled at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and working as a model for &#8220;Men&#8217;s Non-No&#8221; while aspiring to become a movie director.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h3><b>May 24, 2002 issue (age 21)</b><b><br>
</b><b>Takahiro Okazawa</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_318512" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318512"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="f95c47fa"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/0438b492e941e0a3e6b67d5dabdb6f26.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318512" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a friendly one-night stay at a hotel, I found them on a date in a park near Tokyo Tower. Without any disguise, they sat on a bench and chatted in the shade of a tree for about 20 minutes!</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2>Always going all out for locals, friends, and kids</h2>
<h3><b>April 5, 1996 issue (age 15)</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_318513" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318513"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="32c554c3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/9bf99a517a34ab02be4e88b40dab96cc.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318513" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hirosue became popular through a commercial for NTT Docomo. Two days before her graduation ceremony, she returned to her hometown in Kochi and went to karaoke with local friends.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h3>September 5, 2003 issue (age 23)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_318514" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318514"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="567ef441"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/d647abb317a7df2391134a9001af33b0.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318514" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">She spontaneously joined the local &#8220;Yosakoi Festival,&#8221; dancing and shouting &#8220;Yocchore! Yocchore!&#8221; She even won a medal given to outstanding dancers and looked very pleased with herself.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h3>July 10, 2015 issue (age 34)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_318516" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318516"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8b6969a5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/411d458c31ff505a1dd40f4e34493304.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318516" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">She regularly used a child-carrying bicycle, a collaboration between the stylish mom magazine </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">VERY</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Bridgestone, and despite being heavily pregnant, she would rub her belly while taking her second son to and from places.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h3><b>March 30, 2018 issue (age 37)</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_318517" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318517"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="95375ad0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/ddbb80ff5f72b2f06786953193ee38be.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318517" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At a modest Shanghai restaurant in Setagaya Ward with no private rooms, she enjoyed a quiet drinking party with her mom friends. She took the lead in conversation, smiling as she sipped Shaoxing wine. She headed home a little after 10 p.m.</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2><b>An affair between two married people drives her to the brink—</b></h2>
<h3><b>June 3, 2022 issue (age 41)</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_318518" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318518"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2c248994"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/15e932191e4dc7589f852d1ce2fb19df.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318518" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2022, Hirosue appeared in three films and two TV dramas on commercial networks. Around this time, she received the &#8220;Best Mother Award&#8221; and said at the award ceremony, &#8220;There’s no doubt that I owe everything I have now to my children.&#8221;</span></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_318519" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1280px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-318519"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="66417a16"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/06/782bc8552b1cd54648cb7bd35e5abf1b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-318519" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">On June 18, 2023, her husband Candle held a solo press conference to address the affair scandal. He revealed that Hirosue had already brought up divorce before the news broke, and he shed a few tears.</span></figcaption></figure>
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